Batman: A real life hero

Batman may be a fictional hero, but Christian Bale, who played the lead character in the Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, has shown that he is a real life hero too.

After last Friday's shootout at a cinema during the screening of the film that left many dead and injured in Aurora, Denver, USA, Christian Bale took it personally, regretting that such a thing had happened during a screening of his movie.

He later went to visit the victims of the shooting at hospital. Bale, accompanied by his wife, also met others who had pitched in to help the tragedy victims. “Words cannot express the horror that I feel,” Mr Bale said in a statement on Friday. “I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.”

Such gestures by celebrities whom people look up to is very important. It cannot lessen their sorrow but it certainly comes as a balm on their wounds. People make celebrities out of people, so celebrities, even if not personally concerned, should return the gesture and be there for the people who need them.